Charles A. Small

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Charles Asher Small is the Director of The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism. Dr. Small is also the founding Director of the nonprofit Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policyand is a lecturer on the Ethics, Politics and Economics Program; the Political Science Department and with the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, he has a D.Phil from Oxford University, and has taught at the University of London, Ben Gurion University, Tel Aviv University, and Hebrew University. He was the Director/Associate Professor of Urban Studies at Southern Connecticut State University.

On September 19, 2006, Yale founded The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism [1], the first North American university-based center for study of the subject, housed at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, with Small as director and founder. He cited the increase in anti-Semitism worldwide in recent years as generating a "need to understand the current manifestation of this disease". ^[1]

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Small, C. in eds. with Ostendorf Wim and Schnell Izhak "National Identity in a Transforming Quebec Society: Socio-Economic and Spatial Segregation in Montreal", Studies in Segregation and De-Segregation, Avebury, London, 2001.
"Nationalism and Difference in a Cosmopolitan City: The Case of Montreal". Geography Research Forum, Vol. 20, pages 70-101, Beer-Sheva, Israel, 2000
"Social and Spatial Differentiation in Montreal: Assesing a Changing Society", Journal of Research (Paper Number 57, August), School of Georaphy, Oxford, 2000.
"Cosmopolitan Planning: A Model for Reconciliation in Jerusalem", Cantilevers, Vol 4, No 21, 1999.
"Montreal, Nationalism and a Divided City", Jewish Chronicle, London, November 1996.
A Report on English University Programmes: Concerning Issues of 'Race' and 'Ethnic' Relations; Canadian Ethnic Studies, Secretariat of State, Ottawa, 1995.